A Night's Music

Every note jumps to life
and dangles, glides, dances
through the once silent air.
A strumming melody that flickers
like the uncertain flame
of a drifting candle.
Beats that illuminate a way
into the hearts and souls
of every man, woman, and child.
Songs beneath the starry canopy
of the endless mind,
stretching forever on and on
into infinity.
Music of love,
Music of passion,
Music that ventures beyond all imagining
into the dawn of past days,
days of gathering ‘round the fire
under the shadow of a violet moon.